The Healthy Hawai'i Strategic Plan 2030: A Roadmap for Preventing and Managing Chronic Disease and Envisioning a Healthy and Equitable Future.

In June 2021, over 200 stakeholders, advocates, and visionaries gathered to launch the Healthy Hawai'i Strategic Plan 2030 (HHSP), a 10-year strategic plan for improving the health of Hawai'i residents by preventing and reducing chronic disease and advancing health equity. The HHSP is a guide to enable coordination across common risk factors, program areas, interventions, and strategies for chronic disease prevention and control. Developed during the COVID-19 pandemic, which revealed major areas of susceptibility in our health system infrastructure and magnified existing disparities, the HHSP prioritizes health equity and strives to create sustainable change to transform communities, schools, health care and worksites to support the health of the people of Hawai'i. The HHSP is a living document and partners - present and future - are invited to work together to achieve a healthier future for the people of Hawai'i.

Reinventing health promotion for healthy default beverage laws in the face of COVID-19.

Shortly after a healthy default beverage (HDB) law took effect in Hawai'i, requiring restaurants that serve children's meals to offer healthy beverages with the meals, the COVID-19 pandemic struck. Efforts to contain the virus resulted in changes to restaurants' operations and disrupted HDB implementation efforts. Economic repercussions from containment efforts have exacerbated food insecurity, limited access to healthy foods, and created obstacles to chronic disease management. Promoting healthy default options is critical at a time when engaging in healthy behaviors is difficult, but important, to both prevent and manage chronic disease and decrease COVID-19 risk. This commentary discusses COVID-19's impact on restaurant operations and healthy eating, and the resulting challenges and opportunities for this promising health promotion intervention.